What We Do

Your organization's strategies or decisions regarding where and how to compete are enacted through evolving networks of projects. Those projects are adaptable, temporary, team-based problem solving processes. They produce unique results, benefits, and learning, upgrading strategic planning recursively and cybernetically. We help make this happen successfully, consistently, and predictably.

In any organization with many projects, although control mechanisms are created explicitly and often in a centralized manner, the projects must adjust and adapt to each other, creating new systems and subsystems that exhibit a degree of self-organization. We help you standardize, measure, and control the processes that bring order to your portfolio of projects and accomplish your strategies.

The adoption of standards occurs as simple rules, customs, and rituals for project teams: simple rules that create the possibility of behavior that is independent in detail and governed by higher organizing principles, i.e. emergence. Rigid protocols in certain parts of the system create greater flexibility across the total system, enabling agility. We help you do this without creating bureaucracy.

Decision-making must occur capably to a degree that matches the demands of the environment. As performance is reported, resources are reallocated across the portfolio, project termination decisions may be made, and new projects may be initiated top-down or bottom up. We help you implement effective governance structures and systems.

Strategy and project delivery processes can be made capable in ways that reflect your organization's strategic intent and organizational imperatives. Both the processes and the environment they occur within must be cultivated. The processes and the method for transforming both the processes and the environment that situates them are codified as standards, which distill prevailing practices within an authoritative paradigm or framework contrived to enable collaborative action-taking. We help you unleash the power of industry standards.